Essential

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C# is a new language from Microsoft and is a key part of their . NET framework. It is a modern, well-engineered language, in the same family of programming languages in terms of syntax, as C, C++ and Java. If you have knowledge of one of these languages, it will look very familiar. Essential C# fast is a quick, practical introduction to the C# programming language. It includes complete programming examples that highlight the core features of this language, and covers areas such as: - Using C# with a traditional compile run cycle;- Using C# within the Developer Studio environment; - Different data types supported in C#; - Control structures and input and output (i/o) in C#; - Key features of C# and their relationship to C, C++, Java and other programming languages. The source code for examples in this book is available from the Essential series web site: www essential-series. com

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Overview	p. 1
Assumptions	p. 2
What Is Covered	p. 2
System Requirements	p. 3
C# History	p. 4
Languages and Standards	p. 5
Algorithms and Libraries	p. 6
News Groups	p. 6
Bibliography	p. 7
Language Concepts	p. 9
Programming Language Developments	p. 10
Compilation Style	p. 10
Data Types	p. 11
Dynamic Arrays	p. 11
Polymorphism	p. 11
Structured Programming	p. 12
Stepwise Refinement	p. 12
Information Hiding and Modules	p. 12
Pointers and References	p. 13
Operator Overloading	p. 13
Threads and Multitasking	p. 13
Exception Handling	p. 14
Object-Oriented Programming	p. 14
The Approach of Meyer	p. 15
The Approach of Rumbaugh, et al	p. 16
Development Environments	p. 17
Graphical Development Tools	p. 17
Software Components	p. 18
C# Concepts and Terminology	p. 19
Classes	p. 19
Constants	p. 20
Fields	p. 20
Methods	p. 20
Properties	p. 20
Events	p. 20
Indexers	p. 21
Instance Constructors	p. 21
Static Constructors	p. 21
Destructors	p. 21
Inheritance	p. 21
Interfaces	p. 21
Delegates	p. 21
Attributes	p. 22
Bibliography	p. 22
Books and Articles	p. 22
Web Addresses	p. 26
Search engines	p. 27
Ada	p. 27
C	p. 27
C++	p. 27
C#	p. 27
Eiffel	p. 27
Fortran	p. 27
Microsoft Visual Basic	p. 27
Modula 2	p. 27
Oberon	p. 27
Pascal	p. 27
An Introduction to Programming in C#	p. 29
Introduction	p. 30
Hello World Using the Console	p. 32
using System;	p. 32
class HelloWorld	p. 32
{ and }	p. 32
static int Main()	p. 32
Console.WriteLine("Hello World");	p. 32
return 0;	p. 33
;	p. 33
Hello World Using Developer Studio	p. 33
Starting Developer Studio	p. 33
Creating a New Project	p. 35
Creating an Empty Project	p. 36
Adding an Existing Item	p. 37
Building the Project	p. 39
Running the Project	p. 40
Editing the Project	p. 42
Console Application	p. 42
Simple Text I/O	p. 44
Simple Numeric I/O	p. 44
On-Line Documentation	p. 47
Contents Mode	p. 49
Compiler Error Messages	p. 52
Key Concepts of C#	p. 53
Summary	p. 53
Arithmetic and Expressions	p. 55
Introduction	p. 56
Integral Types	p. 58
Floating Point Types	p. 60
The Decimal Type	p. 62
Math Members	p. 63
Public Static (Shared) Fields	p. 63
Public Static (Shared) Methods	p. 63
Public Instance Methods	p. 64
Protected Instance Methods	p. 64
Operators	p. 65
Simple and Aliased Types	p. 69
Integer Arithmetic	p. 70
Integer Overflow	p. 70
Evaluating Simple Expressions	p. 72
Evaluating Expressions Using Increment Operators	p. 73
Evaluating Expressions Using Integer Division and Remainder	p. 73
Variation on a Theme	p. 74
Floating Point Arithmetic	p. 75
Simple Single and Double Precision Example	p. 75
Comparing Calculations	p. 75
Using Variables of Type float	p. 76
Using Variables of Type double	p. 77
Expression Equivalence	p. 78
Trigonometric Evaluation	p. 79
Base Conversion	p. 82
Overflow and Underflow	p. 82
Using an Uninitialised Variable	p. 83
Formatting Numbers	p. 84
Escape Sequences	p. 85
Literals	p. 85
Arithmetic in Other languages	p. 86
Summary	p. 86
Bibliography	p. 87
Problems	p. 87
Some More on Data Types	p. 89
Booleans	p. 90
Characters and Strings	p. 90
The char Data Type	p. 92
Arrays of Characters	p. 92
Initialization and Object Assignment	p. 93
Accessing Array Elements	p. 94
Value and Reference Types	p. 94
Enum Types	p. 95
Days of the Week Example	p. 95
Colours Example	p. 96
Other Types	p. 97
Struct Types	p. 97
Class Types	p. 97
Object Types	p. 97
Array Types	p. 98
C# Keywords	p. 98
Comments	p. 98
Summary	p. 100
Problem	p. 100
Strings	p. 101
Basic String Manipulation	p. 102
Concatenating and Splitting Strings	p. 103
Using the Length Property and IndexOf Method	p. 105
String Constructors, Fields, Methods, Operators and Properties	p. 106
Problems	p. 106
Arrays	p. 107
Introduction	p. 108
One-dimensional Arrays	p. 108
Using a for Statement	p. 108
Using a foreach Statement	p. 110
Array Initialization	p. 110
Simple Two-dimensional Arrays	p. 111
Arrays of Arrays	p. 113
Ragged Arrays	p. 114
List of Array Members	p. 115
Public Static (Shared) Methods	p. 115
Public Instance Properties	p. 115
Public Instance Methods	p. 116
Protected Instance Constructors	p. 116
Protected Instance Methods	p. 116
Summary	p. 117
Problems	p. 117
Control Structures	p. 119
Statement End Points and Reachability	p. 120
Types of Statements	p. 121
Labeled Statements	p. 121
Declaration Statements	p. 121
Embedded Statements	p. 122
Blocks	p. 122
Empty Statements	p. 122
Expression Statements	p. 122
Checked and Unchecked Statements	p. 123
Lock Statements	p. 123
Using Statements	p. 123
Selection Statements	p. 124
If Statement	p. 124
Switch Statement	p. 125
Iteration Statements	p. 130
While Statement	p. 130
Do Statement	p. 131
For Statement	p. 133
Foreach Statement	p. 134
Jump Statements	p. 135
Break Statement	p. 135
Continue Statement	p. 136
Goto Statement	p. 136
Return Statement	p. 136
Example of Jump Statements	p. 137
Exception Handling Using Try, Catch Throw	p. 138
Summary	p. 139
Bibliography	p. 139
Problems	p. 139
Input and Output	p. 143
Introduction	p. 144
Using the Console Class	p. 145
Using the StreamReader Class	p. 146
Specifying the File Location	p. 147
Reading from Standard Input	p. 148
Reading from the Command Line	p. 149
Using StreamReader and StreamWriter with Hard-coded File Names	p. 150
Reading a File from a Web Server	p. 151
Reading Tabular Data from a Text File	p. 152
The System.Console Class	p. 153
The StreamReader Class	p. 154
The System.IO.File Class	p. 155
Problems	p. 157
Exceptions	p. 161
Introduction	p. 162
The Exception Hierarchy	p. 163
Single Public Fields	p. 163
Single Public Methods	p. 164
Integer Arithmetic Exceptions	p. 164
Default Run Time Behaviour	p. 164
Checked Behaviour	p. 165
Floating Point Exceptions	p. 166
Default Run Time Behaviour	p. 166
Checked Behaviour	p. 167
Throwing an Exception	p. 167
Summary	p. 168
Threads	p. 169
Introduction	p. 170
Basic Thread Syntax	p. 171
Using the Sleep Method	p. 172
Threads and Static Variables	p. 173
Threads with Start, Suspend and Resume	p. 175
Thread Priority	p. 176
Thread States	p. 179
Microsoft Examples	p. 179
Bibliography	p. 182
Problems	p. 183
Structs	p. 185
Introduction	p. 186
Basic Syntax	p. 186
Simple Example	p. 187
Classes	p. 189
Basic Class Syntax	p. 190
Examples	p. 191
Greatest Common Divider	p. 191
Recursion	p. 192
Checked Arithmetic	p. 193
Using Try and Catch	p. 194
Date Class	p. 196
Arrays of Dates	p. 197
Inheritance: Virtual Date Base Class	p. 198
Passing Parameters	p. 201
Instance and Static Members	p. 202
Compiler Error CS0120	p. 205
Compiler Error CS0176	p. 206
Additional Syntax	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 208
The System.Collections Namespace	p. 209
Introduction	p. 210
Using the Hashtable Class	p. 211
Using the SortedList Class	p. 214
A Spelling Checker	p. 216
Summary	p. 219
Bibliography	p. 219
Operator Overloading	p. 221
Complex Numbers	p. 222
Complex Arithmetic in Other Languages	p. 222
Complex Numbers Using the Float Data Type	p. 223
Complex Numbers Using the Double Data Type	p. 226
Complex Arithmetic Using Implicit Type Conversions	p. 227
Complex Arithmetic Using Explicit Type Conversions	p. 229
Arrays of Complex Numbers	p. 231
Summary	p. 232
An Introduction to Windows Programming	p. 233
Introduction	p. 234
The .Net IDE	p. 234
Other Languages and the .Net Environment	p. 235
Visual Development	p. 235
Buttons and Event Handling Using a MessageBox Control	p. 245
Getting Help when Writing Programs	p. 248
Running the Program	p. 251
Using a TextBox to Accept User Input	p. 256
Using a RichTextBox to Display Program Output	p. 258
Using a PictureBox to Display an Image	p. 260
Selecting a File with the OpenFileDialog Control	p. 261
Text and Graphics Using GDI+	p. 264
GDI+	p. 264
Creating Graphical Images with GDI+	p. 265
Rendering with GDI+	p. 266
Coordinate Systems	p. 267
The OnPaint Method	p. 267
Graphics Objects	p. 267
Simple Example Using the DrawLine Method	p. 268
Default Coordinate System: Plotting Sines and Cosines	p. 271
Alternate Coordinate System: Plotting Sines and Cosines	p. 275
Simple Text Example	p. 277
Converting a Console to a Windows Application	p. 279
Bibliography	p. 283
Additional Language Features	p. 285
Events and Event Handling	p. 286
Interfaces	p. 287
Attributes	p. 287
Delegates	p. 287
Windows-based Programming	p. 288
Namespaces	p. 289
Assemblies and Versioning	p. 289
Bibliography	p. 290
Where Next?	p. 291
Online Documentation	p. 292
Examples	p. 292
Tutorials	p. 292
Wizards	p. 292
Web Sources	p. 293
Books	p. 293
Microsoft	p. 293
Source Code	p. 293
Coda	p. 293
Default Coordinate System Example in C++	p. 294
Index	p. 297
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